Gerund: baling. Usually a cotton or hay bale, which was cotton or hay compacted into a rectangular cross section bundle and held together by wire (baling wire for hay) or steel bands (for cotton).
: a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery; also: friar.
Boukman (page 60) Boukman was a Jamaican slave and houngan, and on August 14th, 1791, he organized a meeting of slaves in the mountains of the north plain of Haiti. This meeting took the form of a vodou ceremony in the Bois Caiman ('Alligator Woods'), on the plantation of his owner M. Lenormand de Mezy.